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Meeting is postponed to Sunday. Meeting has been postponed to Sunday. If both sentences are correct tell me the difference between the two in using.

Answer 1

Which is correct: “The meeting is postponed to Wednesday,” “The meeting is postponing to Wednesday” or “The meeting postponed to Wednesday?”

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Billy Kerr, Native English speaker. I'm Scottish.

Answered Nov 2, 2016

I wouldn’t use any of these, although your first is acceptable. The others are incorrect because they are not in the passive voice. The meeting is not doing the postponing.

Try one of these, depending on context:

The meeting is being postponed until Wednesday

The meeting was postponed until Wednesday

The meeting is going to be postponed until Wednesday

If you want it in the active voice you’d need to say something like the following:

He is postponing the meeting until Wednesday

She has postponed the meeting until Wednesday

I am going to postpone the meeting until Wednesday

Answer 2

First sentence is present continues tense and the second sentence is present perfect tense I think so